Adhyatmabindu

Author(s): Mitranandvijay, Nagin J Shah
Publisher: L D Indology Ahmedabad

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Jñana Bhandara (Nos. 153, 263) are very corrupt. They are written in V.S. 1960 and V.S. 1951 respectively. A manuscript belonging to Acarya Shri Jambusvami Jaina Muktābāi Jñana mandir, Dabhoi (No. 1930) is also very corrupt. It is written in V.S. 1769. It contains some marginal notes giving mainly the vernacular equivalents of Sanskrit terms. Its colophon states that the author of Adhyatmabindu is Shri Hamsaraja upadhyaya. The two manuscripts belonging to Ac. Shri Vijaya Devasüri's Collection preserved in L. D. Institute of Indology (No. 333, 334) and written in V. S. 1850 and V. S. 1957 respectively do not yield important readings.
AUTHORSHIP
At the end of each of the four Dvatrimśikas we are told that the author is Upadhyaya Harṣavardhana. In the last verse of the fourth Dvatri. mśika the author has given his name. The commentary of the first Dvatrimśika is also composed by him. Hence at the end of the commentary there occurs a remark 'इति स्वोपज्ञाप्यात्मविन्दुविवरणे सदुपाध्यायहर्षवर्धनविरचिते....
We know four Harşavardhanas-one a pupil of Ratnasekhara of Tapagaccha, another belonging to Kharataragacch, the third a pupil of Jinavarahamana and the fourth a pupil of Khemavardhana (1870-1879 V. S.).
1. Harşavardhana, a pupil of Ratnaiekhara of Tapagaccha: Ratnaje. khara was a pupil of Somasundarasūri. He was born in V. S. 1452 (1396 A.D.) and he left this mortal world in V. S. 1517 (1461 A.D.). So, we can satly conclude that Harşavardhana, pupil of Ratnasekhara, belonged to 16th century of Vikrama Era. It is this Harṣavardhanagani who wrote Sadayavatsakumaracaritra in Sanskrit prose. The work has been versified by Matisagara, a pupil of Sagaranandasüri, in V. S. 1986. This versified version has been edited by Shri Manishankar Chhaganlal. In an Introduction (p. 4) to the work Kavi Bhimaracita Sadayavatsaprabandha Dr. Manjulal Majamudara furnishes us with the information that Harṣavardhana, a pupil of Ratnasekhara, composed 'Sadayavatsakatha in Sanskrit prose in V. S. 1527. A manuscript of this work is found in Muni Shri Punyavijayajı's Collection (No. 4877) preserved in L. D. Institute of Indology. It is written in V. S. 1574.
This Harşavardhana has composed Samarasareṇamayastava", Here he intr. duces himself as a pupil of Somasundarasuri. Ratnasekharasuri being the direct disciple of Somasundarasuri, a pupil of the former can legitimately call himself a pupil of the latter too.
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1. A manuscript of this work is preserved in L. D. Collection of L. D. Institute of Indology (No. 4079). It belongs to 18th Century of Vikrama Era.